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New Tool Takes Mere Minutes to Create Dark Web Version of Any Site

Independent security researcher wants to make creating Tor hidden service versions of websites that much easier. More mainstream services and websites are moving towards the dark web. In 2014, Facebook launched its own Tor hidden service so people could connect to the social network more securely, and last year independent journalistic outfit ProPublica booted up […]

Anonymous shut down thousands of Dark Web sites for hosting child porn

Anonymous, as you may know, is a notorious group of hacktivists having footprints across the web including the Dark Web, where all sorts of illegal activities like child pornography and drugs dealing are carried out secretively. It is a widely-known fact that Anonymous is a dedicated group that always targets and attacks service providers, organizations and […]

To Leak User Database Anonymous Hacker Took Down Over 10,000 Dark Web Sites

Dark net is right away going via a totally tough time. Simply days ago, a hacker group affiliated with nameless broke into the servers of Freedom website hosting II and took down greater than 10,000 Tor-based .onion dark web sites with an alarming statement to its site visitors, which stated: Freedom hosting II is the unmarried […]

20% Of The Dark Web Taken Down By Hacker, Here’s How He Did It

Short Bytes: An alleged Anonymous hacker has taken down about a fifth of the Dark Web. He did so by breaching the servers of popular Dark Web hosting service Freedom Hosting II, which powers about 15-20% .onion sites. The hacker targeted the service as the websites contained a large collection of child porn. The vigilante hacker has […]

Anonymous Hacks and Takes Down 10,613 Dark Web Portals

Anonymous hackers have breached Freedom Hosting II, a popular Dark Web hosting provider, and have taken down 10,613 .onion sites. Since all websites were interconnected by Freedom Hosting II’s underlying infrastructure, all sites have been defaced with the same message, as portrayed below: Sarah Jamie Lewis, an anonymity & privacy researcher for mascherari.press, was first […]

Anonymous hacker breached Freedom Hosting II and taken down 10,613 .onion sites

Anonymous hacker breached Freedom Hosting II and taken down 10,613 .onion sites. Hackers focused on the prominent Tor hosting provider since it was giving its services to an expansive number of sites sharing child pornography image. The cyber assault was initially spotted by Sarah Jamie Lewis, a security scientist at mascherari.press, who saw the mass […]

Hacked police forum accounts for sale on the dark web

The hacker targeted PoliceOne.com in 2015, stealing 715,000 members’ accounts, including FBI and DHS staff. A data broker is selling hundreds of thousands of accounts used by police and federal agents from a hacked law enforcement forum. The database is said to have been stolen in 2015, and contains 715,000 records on members who have […]

PSP and Xbox Forums Hacked; 2.5 Million User Accounts Stolen

Around 2.5 million Xbox and Playstation account holders are in trouble since after a year of getting their personal and account details stolen from the forum, now their data has been leaked online by hackers. The forums from where the data was stolen are Xbox 360 ISO and PSP ISO. These two forums are dedicated […]

Hacker Selling 120+ Million Details of “U.S. Cellular” Customers

Multiple days in the past, we have suggested on a dark web dealer promoting nearly 1 Billion money owed stolen from the chinese language net giants. Now, the very equal seller is promoting some thing that is not most effective precise however also tremendously sensitive and some thing which Intelligence agencies around the world could […]

The Strange Case of a Hacked Dark Web Child Porn Site Just Got Stranger

At the end of last year, Mozilla hurriedly patched a zero-day vulnerability for Firefox that had been used against targets in the wild. Shortly after, Motherboard found that the related exploit had been deployed against visitors of a dark web child pornography site called The Giftbox Exchange, and sources said that a law enforcement customer […]

Voyeur adult website hacked; 180k members data leaked

The Candid Board, an x-rated website that operates underground and focuses on sharing disturbing Upskirt pictures of innocent, unsuspecting females has now been exposed to the public eye. Hackers have leaked personal details of around 180,000 members of The Candid Board online. The hack occurred due to the presence of misconfigured or inappropriately configured database. […]

Dark Web’ Largest Trading Platform AlphaBay Hacked; 200k Messages Leaked

AlphaBay is counted among the largest trading marketplace on the Dark Web and this is something that makes the platform inquisitive about prevailing security flaws and vulnerabilities. Recently a hacker identified the existence of two high-risk bugs and revealed this information on Reddit’s forum posts. The hacker, who uses the alias Cipher0007, managed to steal 200,000 […]

Hacker Selling 126 Million Cell Phone Details of “U.S. Cellular” Customers

A few hours ago we exclusively reported on a Dark Web vendor DoubleFlag selling more than 1 Billion accounts stolen from Chinese Internet giants. Now, the same vendor is selling something that is not just unique but also highly sensitive and something the Intelligence agencies around the world would consider an excellent opportunity to get […]

Hacker Selling 1 Billion user accounts stolen from Chinese Internet Giants

A Dark Web marketplace is where you can buy anything from illegal drugs to weapons and several other products including digital goods. In a recent listing, a well known dark web vendor going by the handle “DoubleFlag” is selling data stolen from several Chinese Internet giants. According to the listing, the data belongs to companies such […]

ThePirateBay.org goes down; dark web domain is up and running

You are not alone; the ThePirateBay.org (TPB) domain is offline worldwide. The reason for this outage is unclear, but the good news is that you can still access the site on the dark web through Tor browser, thanks to ThePirateBay’s .onion link. Currently, visitors can see a CloudFlare warning message on TPB domain revealing that the site is offline […]

Satan ransomware-as-a-service starts trading in the Dark Web

Users can expect to share 30 percent of their ill-gotten gains for signing up. A new kind of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) which offers users the chance to tailor their own code and ransom demands has been discovered in the Dark Web. Ransomware is an escalating problem for cybersecurity researchers and the general public alike. This particular […]

Drug Trade on Dark Web Lands Two Men into Jail

We know that the Dark Web has become a breeding ground for malicious activities and crimes. Drug trading is an evil trade by all means and when it is conducted via the Dark Web, chances of preventing detection by law enforcement are quite bright. However, the case of 34-year old Richard Charles Patrick Sinclair and […]

New Exo Android Trojan Sold on Hacking Forums, Dark Web

Malware coders are advertising a new Android trojan that can be used for phishing banking credentials, intercepting SMS messages, locking devices with a password (ransomware-like behavior), and more. The trojan’s name is Exo Android Bot, or Exobot, and is being advertised and sold via Jabber/XMPP spam, via hacking forums, Dark Web marketplaces, and even on […]